This study examined the waste management beliefs and practices of selected households in a Philippine rural municipality.  The sample used for this study involved rural families comprising of 332 households, which was drawn from the population using multistage cluster unequal allocation sampling technique. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze data gathered. Findings show that households e...

Storing municipal solid waste (MSW) in landfills is the oldest and still the primary waste management strategy in many countries. Russia is the third largest methane (CH4) emitter country after USA and China, representing 5% of total global CH4 emissions from waste landfilling. Due to high economical growth, the amount of waste generated in Russia has risen sharply over the last ten years. Howe...

in vietnam, municipal solid waste (msw) has being become increasing complex due to variety of reasons as the increasing quantity, changing composition of msw, rising public awareness and municipal administration policies among different cities and surrounding communities. there is not currently an efficient management system in place for facilities such as storage, collection, transfer, transpo...

background: developing cities like khulna, the third largest metropolitan city in bangladesh, have now begun to confess the environmental and public health risks associated with uncontrolled dumping of solid wastes mainly due to the active participation of non-governmental organizations (ngos) and community-based organizations (cbos) in municipal solid waste (msw) management. methods: a survey ...

municipal solid waste management (mswm) has become the greatest problem facing many urban and semi-urban areas in nigeria, although to varying degrees. this study suggests the various steps and approaches to combat the menace in akure in the southwest zone of nigeria. such approaches include creation of special agencies for the collection, recycling and conversion of municipal solid waste (msw)...

The National Policy on Solid Waste (NPSW) brought a new dimension to waste management in Brazil. According to the requirements of this law, producers, traders, recyclers, importers, distributors, and consumers are each held responsible for waste outcomes. The establishment of reverse logistics systems, also proposed by the law, begins from the management of diffuse interests in support of envir...

background: groundwater is the most important source of water supply in industries and agricultures; therefore the need to protect this valuable resource against pollution is felt more than ever. in this study, the possible impact of yazd municipal solid waste landfill was investigated on the chemical quality of the area’s groundwater. methods: groundwater samples were collected from three well...

background: enzymatic hydrolysis of lactose is one of the most important biotechnological processes in the food industry, which is accomplished by enzyme β-galactosidase (β-gal, β-d-galactoside galactohydrolase, ec 3.2.1.23), trivial called lactase. orthogonal arrays design is an appropriate option for the optimization of biotechnological processes for the production of microbial enzymes. metho...

Over the last years, environmental issues have gained remarkable significance as a result of the high level of environmental awareness in society and also due to the widening of the scope of the environmental legislation and regulation. One of the major concerns within this context is the high rate of packaging waste generation. Nowadays there is a variety of technologies to deal with waste tre...